Lovescape Novels, an art
project exploring the wide 'invisible world' of the landscape of love in which
unfolds the light of civilization

Lu Mountain

Room 12

Volume 8 of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose,
a literary art
project exploring the wide landscape of love
by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Painting a living garden of
the
invisible shapes
that
shape
us

When
the old 'paradise' is fading
a new one is unfolding into life

The Chinese word, Lu, means lodging. Also there is a history attached
to it that gave Lu Mountain its name. It is a history of healing.

Exploring the widening vistas of expanding circles of love, we climb the steep
slopes of the mountain for
the purpose of healing that which is in need of healing. The concept of the lodging
also has a profound meaning as the real lodging for the rose of love is
located in one's own heart. If it isn't there, flowing from it, the world
is empty even while it could be rich and bright. This is one of the threads
that binds all the novels of the series together as the sequence of the unfolding
love-vistas ends in China.

This last novel unfolds almost entirely in China. But it
isn't the pearl in
Chinese history or even that of its modern aspirations that attract the
protagonists to relocate their home to the opposite side of the world.
They choose China for the light that it has managed to retain when the lights in
much of the rest of the world have became dim and in some cases became
extinguished altogether.
The protagonists flee to China when the land of the free becomes a police
state with ominous shadows that none dared to test.

This set-up appeared
like a fiction at the time when the novel was laid out, that seemed so far removed from the probable that it must have
appeared like an insult. How could the land of the free ever be anything
but free? But the world has changed. Now the highly improbable seems frighteningly
probable with concentration camps already being built once again surrounded by
three layers of fencing in a world that is open to torture, incarceration without trial, and in some places laced with waves of murder bordering on genocide,
while society remains silent.

The vistas in China take us far from that. They take us back on
accasions to ancient concepts that are
rooted in China's distant past while the threads of love from the
leading edge become interwoven with the threads of ancient fabric as in the
vista
of the "Queen of the New Law," or the closing vista for the
series that is centered on a girl named Lianhua.

In between these the new and the old
mingle in many ways. Beethoven draws a crowd in a fishing village, and an artist in
that village is commissioned to draw a poster of the leading edge of
science. The point is that love is a science and that science is essential in
the development of love, and both are essential for a new
renaissance.

The protagonists find in China the potential for a great new
renaissance as the nation is struggling to keep itself out of the claws of
the Illuminati's empire that has darkened the world. The protagonists join
China's struggle, and surprisingly they find themselves aided by some of their
former adversaries from within the ranks of the empire's who begin to
recognize that they too are after all still human beings. They find
themselves forced to respect this reality by the imperative of their own
humanity that unfolds as a spark of light in the darkness of their own
creating.

When the novel was first laid out that possibility too, seemed like hopeless
fiction. But now, as the years have passed some of that fiction is faintly
becoming reality also. Maybe it is in that where we find the spirit of Lianhua reflected,
which wasn't really intended that way when the novel was written. Maybe
this is good so, because it puts the onus on us to add this new
development to the Lianhua vista in which may find ourselves reflected.

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of the series, The Lodging for the Rose (above)
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